And it crashed again.....
And it crashed again.....
(OP)
I have been having problems with solidworks crashing. Sadly, this has been happening more since I moved to an approved workstation and video card. I am very frustrated, and have lost a few days worth of work in the past two weeks.
After solidworks crashed a few times I adjusted the backups to save a copy every change. After another crash around lunch today I went back hoping to find a file in there that was recently saved. No such thing.
What else can I do to protect myself from this? I asked my VAR but have not gotten a reply back yet. I wish solidworks had the option to autosave every 10 minutes or something similar.
Any advice? Im frustrated. Now the assembly I was working in has a bunch of mates with problems, including some of the in place mates.
T
After solidworks crashed a few times I adjusted the backups to save a copy every change. After another crash around lunch today I went back hoping to find a file in there that was recently saved. No such thing.
What else can I do to protect myself from this? I asked my VAR but have not gotten a reply back yet. I wish solidworks had the option to autosave every 10 minutes or something similar.
Any advice? Im frustrated. Now the assembly I was working in has a bunch of mates with problems, including some of the in place mates.
T






RE: And it crashed again.....
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: And it crashed again.....
Tim
RE: And it crashed again.....
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: And it crashed again.....
1G Ram
Nvidea 3450
Intel Xeonon 3.2GHZ
Windows XP Pro
RE: And it crashed again.....
Do the crashes happen on a particular file?
When do the crashes happen?
How much RAM & VM are you using when the crashes occur?
The SW site recommends the 7756 driver. Is that the one you are using?
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: And it crashed again.....
When it crashes, is there certain functions you are doing each time? How big is /part/assy? HD or network?
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: And it crashed again.....
Tim
RE: And it crashed again.....
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 05
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: And it crashed again.....
CPU & Memmory:
Stress Prime 2004 (modified Prime95)
http://sp2004.fre3.com/
(run for at least one hour, one application instance per core to make sure heat soak doesn't bite you when, for instance, running cosmos for a day or so later on)
Graphics card:
SPEC Viewperf 8.1:
http://www.spec.org/gpc/opc.static/vp81info.html
Hard drive / network:
If you don't trust your hard drive or network you can make a simple script that copies a test file (a cd image or something) to a different file a couple of times (eg. file1->file2->file3->file4), run that script a couple of times (parallel, to simulate heavy load from multiple programs's) and later on do a file compare between file4 and the original. I use a similar (linux) script to verify my server installs, this test really saved my ass once (when a server which was 'working fine' actually had a broken scsi controller).
Be sure to use some kind of hardware monitoring while running these tests. These tests (especially the SP2004) make your cpu generate way more heat than solidworks ever would.
An other thing I noticed with the nVidia Quadro drivers is that on a clean install the newer drivers (>77.xx) seem to preform worthless, but when you run setup again to install the same driver the performance & stability is where it should be!
Also is you hyperthreading enabled? (it should not be!)
This can be confirmed in the task manager, there should be 1 performance graph for each processor core.
These are tests I use to localize the problem (or to conclude it has to do with your solidworks install).
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
RE: And it crashed again.....
THanks
Tim
RE: And it crashed again.....
HKEY_CURRENT_USER / Software / SolidWorks
Then restart SolidWorks and see if that give you any more stability. That has worked for me in the past.
RE: And it crashed again.....
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
RE: And it crashed again.....
thread559-150036
www.engtran.com
www.niswug.org